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Another massive data center campus proposed in Prince William
Applicant wants to designate 1,930 acres for industrial use
Josh Janney //December 18, 2025//
Server room interior in datacenter. Depositphotos
Server room interior in datacenter. Depositphotos
Another massive data center campus proposed in Prince William
Applicant wants to designate 1,930 acres for industrial use
Josh Janney //December 18, 2025//
A Warrenton-based lobbying and communications firm has filed an early planning application tied to a massive, proposed data center campus in western Prince William County to be called the Dulles South Innovation Center.
LSI 360, also known as LSI Communications, hopes to designate 1,930 acres of land in the Gainesville Magisterial District for industrial use to allow for data center, substation and other supporting uses on the property. Currently, most of the land is low-density residential development on land zoned for agricultural use.
The firm on Tuesday filed for a cultural resource assessment, a process many governments require in early planning to identify whether a property eyed for development contains historic, cultural or archaeological resources.
More information on the project, including the Prince William government’s approval process timeline, was not immediately available.
Applicant Kelly Bleichner, representing LSI 360, and attorney Lee Gleason with Cooley, who is also listed in the application, did not immediately return requests for comment.
Numerous media outlets have described LSI Communications as a lobbying firm that advised residents involved with land sales to advance the controversial Prince William Digital Gateway project, which remains in legal limbo. The project would have added as many as 23 million square feet of data centers on 2,100 acres near Manassas National Battlefield Park and generated an estimated $500 million in local tax revenue over the next two decades.
In December 2023, county supervisors approved rezonings covering about 1,800 acres, but the decision was challenged in court by 12 Gainesville residents who banded together as the Oak Valley Homeowners Association.
In August, Prince William Circuit Judge Kimberly A. Irving ruled in favor of the homeowners, saying that the 2023 vote was void because the county did not comply with the state and county’s advertising policies, which required sufficient public notice of the rezoning vote.
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